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Health care in China increasingly arrives at the front door. Through the country’s Internet Plus Nursing Services program, a patient...

Children who meet all three 24-hour movement-behavior targets—sufficient daily physical activity, limited recreational screen time and adequate sleep—are nearly four...

Modern medicine has become remarkably good at putting patients on medications—and strikingly bad at taking them off. Clinical practice guidelines,...

When it comes to diagnosing sarcopenia—the age-related loss of muscle mass and strength that quietly erodes mobility and independence in...

Endometriosis is one of medicine’s most stubborn puzzles: a hormone-dependent, chronic inflammatory disease in which tissue resembling the uterine lining...

Lung cancer is the world’s deadliest cancer, and yet the way medicine measures it has barely changed in decades. A...

One of the most feared complications of severe infection — the sudden collapse of kidney function known as acute kidney...

The aging ovary has long been told as a story of loss: fewer eggs, poorer-quality eggs, and a slow fade...

In a discovery that could reshape how scientists explain the origins of atrial fibrillation, researchers in Italy have shown that...

For decades, the fastest way to decode what was unfolding on a volleyball court was a trained human eye—a coach...

Every autumn, as the rice harvest ends across northern India, a thick, acrid pall of smoke settles over the Indo-Gangetic...

Five minutes of rhythmic Quran recitation is enough to measurably shift the chemistry of the human stress response, according to...

For millions of older adults, chronic low back pain is far more than a nagging ache — it is often...

The most consequential decision in the treatment of a deep soft tissue sarcoma is often made before a single incision...

Few organisms on Earth enjoy the celebrity status of tardigrades. The eight-legged microscopic animals better known as water bears can...

When women pass through menopause, their risk of hypertension climbs sharply, yet the brain-based mechanisms driving this transition have remained...

Deep inside a spoonful of ordinary soil, a microscopic chemist has been quietly manufacturing a molecule that could one day...

Etoxazole, a mite-killing pesticide sprayed on everything from apples and strawberries to cotton and ornamental plants, has long carried a...

Glioblastoma does not choose its victims by sex, but a striking new study suggests it may wage its war on...

For thousands of autistic adults, every shift at work comes with a hidden second job: the continuous, exhausting labor of...